Canada

Quebec Premier Francois Legault to formally apologize to Joyce Echaquan's family

Quebec Premier Francois Legault says he will present an official apology today to the family of an Indigenous woman who filmed staff insulting her as she lay dying in a hospital northeast of Montreal ...

Oct 06, 2020

Liberals, NDP block Conservative effort to have prorogation study include WE affair

OTTAWA - The Liberals and the NDP have blocked an effort by the Conservatives to get the WE Charity affair probed ahead of a study into why the Liberals prorogued Parliament. The government must provi...

Oct 06, 2020

Quebec reports more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for fifth straight day

OTTAWA - Canada's two most populous provinces remain COVID-19 hot spots today, with Quebec setting a record for new daily case counts. Cases are surging in several parts of the country but Quebec and ...

Oct 06, 2020

Man charged in 2018 Fredericton murders listed people he believed to be demons

FREDERICTON - The trial of the man accused of four murders in Fredericton two years ago has been told Matthew Raymond spent much of the year before the shootings trying to identify demons. Raymond is ...

Oct 06, 2020

The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Oct. 6

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. EDT on Oct. 6, 2020: There are 168,961 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 79,650 confirmed (including 5,884 deaths, 66,180 resol...

Oct 06, 2020

Former Liberal MP Raj Grewal, charged by RCMP, has case adjourned to January

OTTAWA - A former Liberal MP facing charges of fraud and breach of trust related to his time in office has had his case adjourned until early next year. Lawyers for Raj Grewal and the Crown agreed to ...

Oct 06, 2020

Number of new COVID-19 cases in Quebec reaches record high for second straight day

MONTREAL - Health authorities in Quebec are reporting a record number of new COVID-19 cases for the second day in a row. There were 1,364 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province over the past ...

Oct 06, 2020

Liberals' 'supercluster' program falling short of promised jobs, economic growth

OTTAWA - The parliamentary spending watchdog says a government program to fuse public and private money to promote innovation appears to be well shy of its promise. The Liberals created their "supercl...

Oct 06, 2020

Green party won't support Liberals on throne-speech vote, new leader says

OTTAWA - New Green party Leader Annamie Paul says her party won't support the Liberal government's speech from the throne.Paul says there were some very good things in the Liberals' agenda-setting spe...

Oct 06, 2020

Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis casts urgent new light on Pence, Harris undercard debate

WASHINGTON, Wash. - "Politics as usual" isn't normally considered a good thing, but some in the United States might beg to disagree this year. That's why there's more focus than usual on Wednesday's v...

Oct 06, 2020